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No Doubt has pulled its new cowboys-and-Indians-themed music video and are apologizing to American Indians and others offended by the clip.

In a posting on its website, the band said the video for “Looking Hot” was “never to offend, hurt or trivialize Native American people.”

The video features Gwen Stefani and bandmate Tony Kanal dressed in traditional American Indian clothes, while Adrian Young and Tom Dumont are in cowboy getups with guns. Mr. Dumont and Mr. Young tie up Miss Stefani, while Mr. Kanal is behind bars.

The clip includes Miss Stefani riding a horse and singing in a tepee, and a fire-burning dance scene with others dressed in American Indian clothes.

The band said it consulted with American Indian friends and experts but realize people have been offended and “sincerely apologize.”

French designer Ghesquiere leaving Balenciaga house

French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquiere is leaving the Balenciaga fashion house that he helped turn into one of fashion’s hottest properties.

Mr. Ghesquiere and Balenciaga said in a statement Monday that they have come to a “joint decision” to end their partnership at the end of November. No details on a replacement or Mr. Ghesquiere’s next move were provided.

Mr. Ghesquiere took over as creative director of the storied Balenciaga fashion house in 1997, raising its profile among the Paris labels.

Dozing director disrupts performance of ‘Uncle Vanya’

British theater director Peter Hall has apologized for disrupting the performance of a “Downton Abbey” star during the opening night of a stage show on London’s West End.

Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in the hit costume drama, was performing the final speech of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” when Mr. Hall began speaking loudly from the auditorium.

On Monday, Mr. Hall insisted he had not been heckling, but was merely “briefly disorientated” after waking from a brief doze.

Mr. Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Co., said he was “mortified that I unintentionally disrupted” Friday’s performance.

He said his remarks “were not in any way related to ‘Uncle Vanya’ which I think is a very fine production with a marvelous company of actors.”

British director Danny Boyle fights for Moore sculpture

Director Danny Boyle has joined leading British arts figures urging a cash-strapped local authority not to sell off a valuable Henry Moore sculpture — arguing it should be erected in London’s Olympic Park instead.

“Draped Seated Woman” is owned by London’s Tower Hamlets Council and stood for years on a public housing complex in the city’s East End.

Last month, the council announced plans to sell the bronze artwork to offset funding cuts. Estimates of its value range from $8 million to $32 million.

Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman said the local authority faced a “stark choice” at a time of economic weakness and government austerity.

Moore, who died in 1986, is one of Britain’s best-known 20th-century artists, and his curved, semiabstract forms stand in public spaces around the world.

He sold “Draped Seated Woman” to the now-defunct London County Council in 1960 for a token price so it could enrich the lives of residents in a poor area.

During its years in the East End, it became known locally as “Old Flo” and regularly was vandalized.

When the housing project was demolished in the late 1990s, the work was moved to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in northern England.

The proposal to sell it has sparked a campaign to return the artwork to east London, a vibrant but poverty-scarred area that hosted this summer’s Olympic Games.

Mr. Boyle, artists Jeremy Deller and Rachel Whiteread, Tate galleries director Nicholas Serota, and the sculptor’s daughter Mary Moore are among signatories to a letter asking the council to reconsider.

Mr. Boyle, who won an Academy Award for “Slumdog Millionaire” and directed the opening ceremony of the Olympics, said Monday that the sculpture “defies all prejudice in people’s minds about one of London’s poorest boroughs.”

“That alone makes it priceless to every resident,” he said. “Let’s put it in the Olympic Park alongside the Bradley Wiggins Bell” — rung by the British cycling champion to mark the opening of the games.